Ingleby Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Viewing Rooms
  • INSTALMENTS
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • Publications and Editions
  • Video
  • About Us
Menu

Garry Fabian Miller: Midwinter Blaze

Past exhibition
12 October - 20 December 2019
  • Overview
  • Works
  • Installation Views
Garry Fabian Miller, 'There is no shadow', 2017, Light, oil, Lambda C-print from dye destruction print, Edition of 3. This copy 2/3. 116.8 x 116.8 cm
Garry Fabian Miller, 'There is no shadow', 2017, Light, oil, Lambda C-print from dye destruction print, Edition of 3. This copy 2/3. 116.8 x 116.8 cm
View works

For the past thirty-five years Garry Fabian Miller has worked without a camera, making images entirely in the darkroom and using the techniques of early nineteenth century photographic exploration to experiment with the possibilities of light, as both medium and subject.

 

Since the mid 1980s Miller has patiently developed methods of passing light through coloured glass and liquid onto photographic paper, often using long exposures lasting anywhere between one and twenty hours to create his unique and luminous images. These techniques have earned Miller a deserved reputation as one of the most progressive artists working with photography today, a status marked by the Victoria & Albert Museum’s support of his work over the past 30 years. This support found physical form in Shadow Catchers,  the landmark 2010 exhibition devoted to camera-less photography, and continues in the museum’s commitment to documenting the working practice of Miller's darkroom as a unique site of artistic production. The results of this - almost anthropological - engagement will be made visible in phase 2 of the V&A's new Photography Centre, planned to open in the spring of 2022,  and proceeds in tandem with the museum's long term ambition to house the artist’s archive.

 

The photographs that will be shown at Ingleby this Autumn are characteristically virtuosic meditations on colour and form but they also mark the end of an era as the artist battles with the extinction of the analogue materials in a digital age. Dwindling supplies of paper and chemistry and the increasingly fugitive nature of his life-learnt methods see Miller embracing the perversity of his position in a final blaze of picture-making glory.

 

A new book, titled BLAZE, will be published to coincide with this latest body of work. The artist and writer Edmund de Waal introduces the new publication and comments:

 

Blaze is the word for manifesto – words and ideas to start a fire with. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Malevich’s writings. Kandinsky on colour. I think of the blaze of “Die Fackel’, the Torch, a blaze of red to set light to Vienna in the early part of the last century. Blaze is anger. And tenderness. And loyalty too: those emotions that are tinder-dry, unpredictable, unsearched-for and costly. The latest body of work by Garry Fabian Miller blazes.

 

Garry Fabian Miller will give the annual lecture of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography on Friday 15th November at the National Galleries of Scotland.

  • Read: 'Blaze' publication press release
  • Read: Studio International, November 2019
  • Read: The Scotsman 2019
  • Read: The British Journal of Photography, October 2019
  • Read: Royal Photographic Society Journal
Download Press Release

Related artist

  • Garry Fabian Miller

    Garry Fabian Miller

Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Back to exhibitions
Privacy Policy
Manage cookies
Copyright © 2023 Ingleby Gallery
Site by Artlogic
Go
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Twitter, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences